Backup Restore Problem

starlight · Nov 4, 2003

I'm trying to restore a backup of My Documents from a partition (drive D) off my laptop onto My Documents on my desktop which is not partitioned (drive C).

When I try to restore it using WinXp's Backup, it won't let me restore it as there is no drive D on the desktop... If instead choose "alternate location", it then makes a copy of My Documents within the My Documents folder.

How I can restore these folders and files without having to copy each folder individually from the 2nd My Documents into the real My Documents, which would take hours as there are loads of files many of which are rather large in size, not least My Pictures?

Thanks to anyone who might be able to help!

starlight · Nov 5, 2003

Anyone please?

DavidGP · Nov 5, 2003

Do a system restore point as a safety measure first then..................

Are you when choosing "Advanced" picking as the restore location this > C:\Documents and Settings\XXXXXXX\My Documents ( XXXXXXX = User Name ) if thats the case then yes it will create a second copy of the backed up Documents folder inside that one.

Try this as it should give you an option to overright or merge with existing files already in Your Docs folder.

when in What to Restore keep opening the branches ( + ) to you get to the folder/s you want to restore tick them because if you backed up the whole MY Documents folder you will possibly have 100s of cookies stored unless at time of backup you deleted them.

then next

pick Advanced > Alternate Location > the locate this but when browsing for C:\Documents and Settings\XXXXXXX use the route through your C: drive rather than pick MY Documents from the list

then next > hopefully it will merge the docs file with the one already there

otherwise dump the backup you have in a temp folder some where and manually copy the contents into the My Docs folders

I personally dont use this method I just copy N paste a copy of my docs onto a CDRW or a different HD then use the above otherwise method

starlight · Nov 5, 2003

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I'd already tried the options you suggested, but it made no difference.

I think I'll simply have to copy and paste the lot....

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